George Michael’s grave will not be public to fans of the singer after it was revealed that it is positioned in a private area of London’s Highgate Cemetery and will not be available as part of the cemetery’s guided tours.

A tall barrier was placed around the gravestone after George’s funeral service on March 29 when he was laid to rest alongside his late mum Lesley in a private family ceremony, however now Highgate Cemetery bosses have confirmed that the area will not be open to the public and it will not be included in the cemetery’s £12 guided tour.

Although the north London cemetary’s east wing is public, George has been buried the west cemetery which is only accessible via a 70-minute guided tour.

George found fame in the 80s as one half of WHAM! (Picture: Redferns)

Highgate Cemetary

Opened in 1836, Highgate Cemetary in North London was built with two chapels, one for the Church of England and the other for Dissenters.

It attracted a varied clientele and during its first few decades became one of the capital’s most fashionable cemeteries; those buried there include Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Malcolm McLaren, Beryl Bainbridge, Lucian Freud, and Jean Simmons.

The cemetary’s most famous interment is that of the philosopher Karl Marx who died in 1883.

He was found in bed by his partner Fadi Fawaz; Darren Salter, the senior coroner for Oxfordshire, said that the pop star died as a result of dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver.

Funeral plans were not able to go ahead until the coroner’s report was returned to the family after the post-mortem proved inconclusive, and sources close to the singer’s family had admitted that the strain of having to delay the funeral was proving ‘intolerable’, particularly on his father.

George’s former Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley, who paid touching tribute to him at the 2017 Brit Awards by reminding everyone that ‘George’s contribution to the great archive of contemporary music rests alongside the immortals’, also spoke of his grief at the delay.

‘We’ve not had closure,’ he admitted. ‘It’s difficult for me. It’s difficult for everyone. It’s a limbo period and we need to be able to move on.’

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